"Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’” Trump said. “You know, some owner is going to do that. He’s going to say, ‘That guy that disrespects our flag, he’s fired.’ And that owner, they don’t know it [but] they’ll be the most popular person in this country.”

This is true, but unfortunately, being an asshole is usually covered under free speech.

I was hoping the whole kneeling at a football game would just fade away like so many other annoying things (fidget spinners and slime come to mind) but now we're going to have to deal with kneeling all over again.

The suggestion has been made that it should be against the law to disrespect the American flag,make it a law.The same people would thought that it was fine for the government to make it law that you had to purchase insurance should have no problem with that.Right?

@Toolsmith: "There is no free speech in the workplace. Once your employer is known to be associated with you, they can censor you any way they want. So say the government lawyers..."

Thank you Toolsmith for actually talking about the issue at hand... however since the NFL is a monopoly and the players have a union (one of the few instances where a union makes sense, IMHO) it would have to be negotiated.

I believe the NFL's CBA says that players can be "fired" (or suspended) for pretty much anything (the NFL's agreement favors the owners more than any other league).

But it would generate a shit storm of epic proportions, and you can bet that a large number of players would just stop playing in protest. Which would cost the league a ton of money and probably put it in jeopardy. Or, the teams that didn't fire players would just pick up all the awesome players and then win.

Either way, it isn't in the owners' best interest to "fire" players, and I'm sure they don't appreciate Donnie Trump putting them in that situation.

Then again, I've completely been distracted from talking about yet another failed Obamacare repeal and the probable loss of Trump's candidate, Luther Strange, so hey, mission accomplished!

The owners are laughing all the way to the bank because the actions of one man put a focus on the sport that was losing viewer interest due to being same-old same-old. If Trump were really smart eh would have ignored the entire issue as he should the rantings of the North Korean dictator. The latter needs a culprit in order to keep control of his dictatorship when his real desire is war against South Korea in order to reduce his dependency on foreign support for his economy which he now gets from China. China on the other hand, gives this support in order to keep the famished North Koreans from migrating to China.